range
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English rengen, from Old French renger (“range, rank, order, array”), from rang (“a rank, row”), from Old High German hring, hrinc, Middle High German rinc (“a ring”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
range (plural ranges)
- A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
- A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred fornaces all burning bright;
- L'Estrange
- He was bid at his first coming to take off the range, and let down the cinders.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- Selection, array.
- We sell a wide range of cars.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, Internal Combustion[1]:
- But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
- An area for practicing shooting at targets.
- An area for military training or equipment testing.
- The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
- We could see the ship at a range of five miles.
- One can use the speed of sound to estimate the range of a lightning flash.
- Maximum range of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).
- This missile's range is 500 kilometres.
- An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
- Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
- Alexander Pope
- Far as creation's ample range extends.
- Bishop Fell
- The range and compass of Hammond's knowledge filled the whole circle of the arts.
- Addison
- A man has not enough range of thought.
- Alexander Pope
- (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
- (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
- (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
- Jones has good range for a big man.
- (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
- (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
- (programming) A sequential list of iterators that are specified by a beginning and ending iterator.
std::for_eachcalls the given function on each value in the input range.
- An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
- Sir M. Hale
- The next range of beings above him are the immaterial intelligences.
- Sir M. Hale
- (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Clarendon to this entry?)
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
- A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
- South
- He may take a range all the world over.
- South
- (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
Synonyms [edit]
- (area for military training): base, training area, training ground
- (distance to an object): distance, radius
- (music: scale of tones): compass
Antonyms [edit]
- (values a function can obtain): domain
Holonyms [edit]
- (values a function can obtain): codomain
Derived terms [edit]
- (area for practicing shooting): archery range
- (area for practicing shooting): firing range
- (area for practicing shooting): indoor range
- (area for practicing shooting): shooting range
- (area for practicing shooting): target range
- (area for military training): air weapons range
- (area for military training): artillery range
- (area for military training): grenade range
- (area for military training): live-fire range
- (area for military training): missile range
- (area for military training): rocket range
- (area for military training): tank range
- (maximum range): effective range
- (maximum range): maximum range
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
line of mountains
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large stove with many hotplates
selection, array
area for practicing shooting
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area for military training or equipment testing
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distance to the object
maximum reach of capability
area of open, often unfenced, grazing land
math: set of values of a function
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statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation
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baseball: defensive area covered by a player
music
ecology
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programming: sequential list of iterators
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Verb [edit]
range (third-person singular simple present ranges, present participle ranging, simple past and past participle ranged)
- (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. [from 15th c.]
- (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over. [16th-19th c.]
- 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.40:
- The soule is variable in all manner of formes, and rangeth to her selfe, and to her estate, whatsoever it be, the senses of the body, and all other accidents.
- 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.40:
- (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else. [from 16th c.]
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 22
- At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were needed no longer. The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging alongside.
- 1910, Saki, ‘The Bag’, Reginald in Russia:
- In ranging herself as a partisan on the side of Major Pallaby Mrs. Hoopington had been largely influenced by the fact that she had made up her mind to marry him at an early date.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 22
- (intransitive) (mathematics, computing; followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range
- The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10.
- (transitive) to classify
- (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
- 1873, James Thomson (B.V.), The City of Dreadful Night
- The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms,
- Amidst the soundless solitudes immense
- Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.
- 1873, James Thomson (B.V.), The City of Dreadful Night
- For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.
Translations [edit]
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External links [edit]
- range in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- range in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- range at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams [edit]
Estonian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Allegedly coined ex nihilo by Johannes Aavik in the 20th century.
Adjective [edit]
range
French [edit]
Verb [edit]
range
- first-person singular present indicative of ranger
- third-person singular present indicative of ranger
- first-person singular present subjunctive of ranger
- first-person singular present subjunctive of ranger
- second-person singular imperative of ranger
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